System Administration Tools for the ARM Build Farm

System Administration Tools for the ARM Build Farm

Project Description

The Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem or "farm" consists of 23 ARM builder systems which will grow to 38 by the end of this semester. As it grows, the need for efficient system management tools increases. The previous semesters' students started the work of setting up nagios (monitoring) and [func] (group control) tools.

This project involves configuring these tools to work with all of the systems in the ARM build farm, as well as setting up and configuring the puppet (configuration management) tool.

• Maximum number of students: 2
• Skills required: Linux system administration, problem solving, documentation writing
• Resources: wiki notes from previous semesters (e.g., How to Setup and configure Nagios), Fedora ARM Koji Buildsystem,CDOT Development Systems
• Expected result: nagios, func, and puppet working across the entire ARM build farm; documentation on how to use these tools on the farm and how to add additional devices
• Initial contacts: ctyler, PaulW

Project Leader(s)

Not sure who the primary Project Leader(s) are for this project but according to the project description primary contacts are;

• Chris Tyler
  
• Paul W

Students that will be working on this project are listed below;

• Gian-Luca Casella
• Tim Furzer
• Pirathapan Sivalingam

Project Contributor(s)

Only Project Leader(s) should add names here. You should not add your own name to the list of Contributors.

Project Plan

Tracking mechanism (bugzilla, trac, github, ...):

Key contacts:

Goals for each release and plans for reaching those goals:

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3

Communication

Mailing Lists

Fedora Arm Mailing List

Upsteam Wiki and Web

• fedorahosted.org FUNC
• Setup and Configure Nagios

Blogs

Seneca Particpants

• Gian-Luca Casella
• Tim Furzer
• Pirathapan Sivalingam